Saturday, December 13, 2014

Chatham House Food security conference

The conferenceoffered a comprehensive assessment of the threats to global food security and identified priorities for action. Particular focus was given to addressing vulnerabilities in the global supply chain, the impacts of climate change, and instability in the global food market.

Attendees heard from food manufacturers, traders and retailers as well as representatives of key export and import dependent countries. Discussion considered what is needed from national policy, new business practice and international collaboration in order to mitigate these risks and improve resilience.

Agricultural trade policies in the EU and US will continue to promote farm security, and emerging economies will increase their role in the global food trade with increasing farm support, whereas poorer countries will be unable to protect and support their weak producers in the absence of adequate resilience tools, and safeguards against food dumping. Christian Häberli World trade Institute (WTI) senior researcher

Mapping the Risks

What are the key risks – by likelihood and severity – that require monitoring and managing?

Which countries, populations and businesses face the greatest challenges?

What new threats have recently been identified and what impact may they have?

What tools can help to predict improbable, but catastrophic, ‘worst case scenarios’?

To what extent does food insecurity threaten global political stability?

Identifying vulnerabilities in the global supply chain

Which trade routes are of critical importance to the global food system?

Where are the respective choke points for import-dependent countries and major export countries?

What are the challenges facing strategic infrastructure, storage and distribution?

How can businesses identify supply chain risks of strategic importance? What strategies can help to improve resilience? What are the implications for food security policies?

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Purpose

The Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (Phase II) is to build joint African-European multi-stakeholder partnerships in agricultural research for development. PAEPARD II nurtures partnerships to increase the quantity and quality of joint proposals (leading to more funded initiatives).

PAEPARD II not only focuses on FP7, but includes other European Commission (EDF, EC Budget through the FSTP) and bilateral funding instruments supporting ARD that might be mobilized for emerging ARD partnerships.